170 IAC 5-1-18 Informational pamphlets; rate schedules; notice of proposed rate change

Sec. 18. Information Provided by Utilities to Applicants and Customers. (A) Each utility must publish and distribute, without request, to all applicants for service and to all current customers, a comprehensive pamphlet which, in clear language, easily understandable to a layman, fully describes the rights and responsibilities of the customers. (B) A utility shall supply free of charge a copy of the rate schedules applicable to the types of service available to new applicants for and existing customers of residential service, upon request by the applicant or customer. (C) Each utility, whenever it petitions the Commission for any change in its residential base rate schedules must furnish to each residential customer within forty-five (45) days of such request and prior to the date of the public hearing a notice which fairly summarizes the nature and extent of the proposed changes. Notice is not necessary, under this section, for tracking increases or decreases.